slough
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English, akin to Middle High German slûch (“slough”) (whence German Schlauch (“tube, hose”)).
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[edit] Noun
slough (plural sloughs)
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
[edit] Translations
the skin shed by a snake or other reptile
dead skin on a sore or ulcer
[edit] Verb
slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)
- (transitive) To shed (skin).
- A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
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to shed (skin)
[edit] Etymology 2
From Old English slōh, probably from Proto-Germanic *slōhaz.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (Australia, British):
- (General American): enPR: slou, IPA: /slaʊ/, SAMPA: /slaU/ or enPR: slo͞o, IPA: /sluː/, SAMPA: /slu:/
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia slough (plural sloughs)
- (UK) A muddy or marshy area.
- 1883 "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. — Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- (Eastern North America) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
- (Western North America) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
- A state of depression.
- John is in a slough.
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[edit] Translations
a muddy or marshy area
a type of swamp or shallow lake system
a secondary channel of a river delta
